Pocket for garments



H. E. WHALEY. POCKET FOR. GARMENTS.

Patented Jam 8, 1889.

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HENRY E. IVHALEY, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

POCKET. FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,729, dated January8, 1889.

Application filed September 7, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY E. \YHALEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets forGarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates togarmentsol' cloth, fur, and similar fabrics ormaterials; and it consists in a strengthening or re-ent'orcing stripinserted into the pocket-openings in such a manner as to receive thestrains and distribute them over a large surface of the materialsforming the garments, and preventing the tearin out of "the ends of themouth of the pocket, as hereinafter shown and described, andspecifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view from the outside, and Fig. is asimilar view from the inside, of the pocket, shown attached to afragment of cloth, showing my improved strengthening-strip attachedthereto. Fig. 3 is a View in cross-section on the line X X of Fig. 1.Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of one of the streiigthening-stripsremoved.

In the ordinary manner of forming pockets in garments the opening forthe pocket is merely a slit through the cloth or other material, thepocket and its facing being sewed fast to the edges of the slit, with noprotection except the stitches by which the parts of the pocket areconnected, to prevent the strains being borne almost entirely by theends of the slit. This results very frequently in the pocket being torn.down at the lower ends, especiallyin overcoats and other similar outergarments. To avoid this tendency is the object of my invention, whichconsists in a strip, A, of cloth, fur, or other material, similar to thebody *3 of the garment, sewed fast to the edges of the pocket-slit at a,and between the pocket and the edge of the slit, so that the lower end,I), of the slit is covered and protected by this strip and the strainsborne by the strip instead of by the body of the garment, where it isgreatly weakened by the cutting of the slit through the cloth, fur, or

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other material. The edges of both the slit and the pocket 0 are turnedin, as shown, and the edge of the strip A sewed in between the twoturned over edges. The strains are thus distributed equally around theentire edges of the pocket-opening and will not tear out in one placemore than in another. The strains are thus borne almost entirely by thewhole width of the strip A, and a very small percentage of the strainsis borne by the body of the garment, except, as before stated, aroundthe entire length of the edges of the pocket-opening. I

It may not be necessary to form the strip to embrace the wholepocket-opening, but it may be formed to extend only part way up one orboth sides of the pocket. In order to accomplish the desired results,however, the strip must extend far enough up both sides of thepocket-opening to prevent the strains tearing the cloth at its weakestpoint-viz., at the lower end of the slit. This strip A thus takes theplace of the ordinary pocket-strip, and is inserted on the side of thepocket next the inner side of the pocket-slit and is secured between theedge of the slit and the edges of the pocket 0, and thus does not addmaterially to the cost of the production or to the material employed inmaking the garment. The strip is placed. in the pocket-opening withoutbeing doubled back upon itself, thus giving as broad a bearingsurface atthe bottom, where the greatest strains occur, as at any other point, andin this it differs very materially from ordinary gores or re-enforcingstrips as heretofore used, as by my arrangement the strains are borneentirely by the cloth or other fabric of the strip, wnile in the otherform the strains are borne very largely by the stitches by which it issecured. This manner of inserting the supporting-strip is one of thepeculiarities of this invention and is novel so far as I am aware.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A garment having a pocket-opening therein the edges of whichare foldedinward, in combination with a p mket attached to said inwardly-foldededges and re-enforeing strip In testhnon y \vhereofi have hereuntosetnly attached byone of its edges between the adhand in the presence oftwo subscribing mtjaeent edges of the pocket and the inwardlynesses.

folded edges of the pooket-opel'ling, whereby HEN RY E. 'HALEY. thepocketopening is supported and the \Vitnesses: Strains distributed overthe body of the gar- 1. N. \VOODWARD,

ment contiguous thereto. H. S. \VEBSTER.

